Session 31
Title: Introduction to Microsoft Producer for Windows XP or 2000
Presenter(s): Patrick Crispen
Room: Monument Room
Strand: Featured Speaker
Microsoft Producer for PowerPoint 2002 (a.k.a. "PowerPoint XP") is a free PowerPoint add-in that lets you easily capture, synchronize, and publish audio, video, slides, and images, turning your old PowerPoint slide shows into rich-media presentations that you can easily put on the Internet.  Microsoft Producer is the most exciting thing to happen to PowerPoint in years, and it will change the way that you look at PowerPoint slide shows forever!  (Microsoft Producer is only available for PowerPoint 2002 which is part of Office XP, and Producer will only run on Windows XP or 2000.  Sorry, Mac users!)

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Session 32
Title: Multimedia Seeds: A Starting Point for Audio, Video, and Visual Resources on the Web
Presenter(s): Annette Lamb, Larry Johnson
Room: Ballroom A
Strand: Featured Speaker
Seeds are the starting point of any effective learning environment. Learn how to locate quality audio, video, and visual elements on the Web that can be integrated into a wide range of technology-rich projects. In addition to specific resources, the session focuses on the evaluation, selection, use, management, and integration of online "multimedia resources." Issues such as access, copyright, and censorship are also discussed. Multimedia literacy (i.e., visual and auditory) and integration of multimedia resources into the K12 and higher education curriculum are examined, along with techniques for sharing and disseminating audio and visual elements (PowerPoint, Word, Inspiration, webpages). Finally, remote (i.e., video conferencing and streaming media) and emerging technologies (i.e., DVD) are highlighted. Explore multimedia seeds that will help students and their teachers grow a crop of great technology-rich projects.

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Session 33
Title: Copyright and Computer Software
Presenter(s): Gary Becker
Room: Ballroom B
Strand: Featured Speaker
This session provides information related to the use of computer software and licensing agreements. Handout (html)

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Session 34
Title: Virtual Reality:  Toolbox Essential for Elementary School Library Media
Presenter(s): Melanie Cardell, William Wiencke
Room: Ballroom C
Strand: Library/Media
Virtual reality has multiple student uses.  It can be a mechanism for teaching students library access and information access skills.  It can be a threshold to a greater world view. Visit the LMC in reality and in virtual reality.

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Session 35
Title: Professional Development That "Leaves No Child Behind"
Presenter(s): Elizabeth Holmes
Room: Ballroom D-E
Strand: Administrative - Professional Development
Professional development can be responsive to student learning needs.  Learn about opportunities for technology training that model strategies for improving student achievement as defined in NCLB.

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Session 36 (v)
Title: Content Delivery Networking:  Delivering Live and Sorted Video
Presenter(s): Ken Fee
Room: 306
Strand: Emerging Technologies
Learn about an essential ingredient for optimization of Web content delivery, to proactively distribute cacheable content from origin server to content servers at the edges of the network and to keep content fresh.

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Session 37
Title: Web-Based Instruction:  Lessons Learned
Presenter(s): Dr. Jorge Gaytan
Room: 308
Strand: Distance Learning
Learn about issues related to conventional versus Web-based instruction.  Recommendations for practice and future research are given.

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Session 38
Title: Georgia E-Learning
Presenter(s): Lisa Ciardulli
Room: 309
Strand: DOE
Learn about statewide course opportunities available to both schools and students online.  The future of virtual learning in Georgia will also be discussed.

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Session 39 (v)
Title: Improving Grades 3-8 Basic Skills and Test Scores with Computer Software
Presenter(s): Dan Miller, Jane Logan
Room: Suite A
Strand: Elementary/Pre-K
Learn how to use Cornerstone and other software to improve reading and math scores, using Georgia schools as examples.  Electronic handout (495 KB pdf file)

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Session 40
Title: How to Hack Windows!
Presenter(s): Brent Williams
Room: Suite B
Strand: Network Infrastructure/Technical Support
Tired of having your network or systems hacked?  Learn what hackers know.  See the thought process, the tools, and the techniques that are used to penetrate your networks and computers.  You will also learn how to prevent attacks against Windows.

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Session 41 (v)
Title: Japanese, at Your Doorstep
Presenter(s): Greg Duncan, Rhonda Hefner-Packer, Blaine Carpenter
Room: Suite C
Strand: ESOL/Foreign Languages
Georgia Public Broadcasting provides Japanese language and culture learning to more than 300 Georgia high school students every day.  Come learn how your school can participate.

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Session 42 (s)
Title: Spotlight on Technology Success in Georgia Schools
Presenter(s): Apple
Room: 313
Strand: Sponsor
Drop in for a “show and tell” and discover how schools, educators, and students are successfully using technology.  Visit any of our six "Success Story" stations and chat with teachers and students about their incredible stories.  View projects and movies about the use of digital media, wireless laptops for mobile learning, or a district-wide laptop initiative for all teachers.  Talk to teachers who have proof that effective technology integration with project-based learning can positively affect student achievement.  Walk away with great ideas for motivating students and for making your classroom hum with technology integrated into the curriculum!

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Session 43 (s)
Title: Dell’s Electronic Interactive Classroom
Presenter(s): Dell
Room: 324
Strand: Sponsor
This session will be a live demonstration of a number of electronic technologies, such as electronic whiteboards, projectors, wireless slates, and handheld remotes.  Coupled with educational software, these electronic tools can electrify the classroom and make chalk and blackboards obsolete.  As we enter the information age of the twenty-first century, we must embrace these electronic tools to ensure our ability to provide the student with the skills to locate and use the vast amounts of information available to us today.  Door prizes will be given away during the session.

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Session 44 (s)
Title: SchoolMax Sponsor Session
Presenter(s): Sponsor SchoolMax
Room: 312
Strand: Sponsor

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Session 45 (s)
Title: Classroom Video Content Distribution
Presenter(s): Micro Technology Consultants
Room: 310
Strand: Sponsor
Micro Technology Consultants will present a session on "Network Video For The Classroom.”  Participants will view a live demonstration of how new and existing television systems can be used to enhance instruction.  The presenters will show to how to distribute content such as PeachStar and cable TV to the classroom from the media center.

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Session 46 (s)
Title: Interactive Learning and Assessment from LeapFrog (PreK-5)
Presenter(s): Susan Cherry, Joe Massaro
Room: 305
Strand: Sponsor
Learn about the new classroom products from the interactive minds at LeapFrog SchoolHouse. These classroom centers and reading libraries feature the award-winning LeapPad "talking books," LeapMats, and LeapDesk. The all new LeapPad-delivered assessment and learning tools of LeapTrack will also be introduced.  These tools expand the Leap material to grade five.

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Session 47 (s)
Title: Empower Your Teachers and Students with K-12 Online Resources that Align with QCC Standards
Presenter(s): Ed McCullough
Room: 303
Strand: Sponsor
Learn how netTrekker can enhance teaching and learning with K-12 online resources that align with QCC standards.

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Session 48 (s)
Title: Riverside Publishing Sponsor Session
Presenter(s): Riverside Publishing
Room: 106
Strand: Sponsor
Technology is becoming an important component of many statewide assessment programs.  Come and see a web-based delivery system being developed for the State of Georgia by Riverside Publishing.  Using this online system, teachers can select from and administer pre-developed testets measuring Georgia's Quality Core Curriculum (QCCs).  Results are available immediately for instructional purposes.  Come and experience this system firsthand!

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Session 49 (s)
Title: Voice over IP
Presenter(s): SBC
Room: 107
Strand: Sponsor

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Session 50
Title: Technology Committee Plans for Stepping into the Millennium
Presenter(s): Susan Caster
Room: CP Exhibit Room
Strand: Technology Planning
Examine the strategic planning process, data collection, and results of a high school technology committee striving to promote a technology-rich learning environment.

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Session 51
Title: What's in the Bag?
Presenter(s): Becky Crosby
Room: CP Lanier
Strand: MS English
Students can sink their teeth into this lesson, which includes math, social studies, science, language arts, and technology.  Participants are given a bag of animal crackers to use in activities.  Come see what's in your bag!

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Session 52
Title: The "Mouse-Keteers": Starting a Technology Club
Presenter(s): Jill Higgins, Suzzanne Horton
Room: CP Walnut
Strand: Elementary/Pre-K
Get information on how to start a technology club in an elementary school to enhance technology skills and improve community/parent relations.

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Session 53
Title: Automating Your Technology Fair
Presenter(s): Gayle Esposito, Sherry Nix
Room: CP Preservation Hall C-D
Strand: Administrative - Curriculum
Don't spend your nights and weekends getting ready for your local technology fair.  Learn how automating your tech fair will benefit the producers and participants. Electronic handout (website link)

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Session 54
Title: Critical Thinking, Information Literacy, and the Internet
Presenter(s): Brad Rankin
Room: CP Preservation Hall A-B
Strand: Assessment/Accountability and Standards
The amount of information that can be accessed via the Internet can be overwhelming.  Students need critical thinking and information literacy skills more than ever before.  Electronic handout (website link to pdf document)

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Session 55
Title: Basic Network Troubleshooting and Maintenance
Presenter(s): Curtis Faulkner
Room: CP Mercer
Strand: Network Infrastructure & Tech. Support
Have you inherited a computer network and don't know where to start in maintaining it?  This session introduces the participants to some of the low to moderate-cost test equipment currently available, troubleshooting and network statistic software, and the core steps to successfully troubleshoot most basic network connection problems.  This session doesn't focus on any one operating system or protocol, as it is directed mainly at troubleshooting physical network issues.

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Session 56
Title: Technology Integration in Middle School Science:  "Walking the Walk"
Presenter(s): Martha Lipold
Room: CP Wesleyan
Strand: MS Science
A former InTech instructor for the ETTC's returns to the classroom!  Find out about her experiences as she implements technology integration into her science classroom.  She could "Talk the Talk," but could she "Walk the Walk?"

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Session 57
Title: Kid Pix Curriculum Connection
Presenter(s): Wendy Marshall
Room: CP Preservation Hall 1
Strand: Multimedia /Media Production
Are you looking for ways to use Kid Pix to help you reach your curricular goals?  Ideas, lesson plans, and door prizes will be shared.

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Session 58
Title: The JASON Project in Georgia
Presenter(s): Jimmy Bostock
Room: CP Lanier
Strand: Emerging Technologies
Are you looking to inspire your students?  The JASON Project offers an inter-disciplinary, multimedia approach to enhance teaching and learning for students and teachers.

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Session 59
Title: The Best New Web Searching Tools
Presenter(s): Judi Repman, Randy Carlson
Room: CP Preservation Hall 3
Strand: Library/Media
Power up your Web searching with the newest tools.  New tools make it easy to refine your results (Tacoma), while others present results graphically (Kato).

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